THE CORPORATION [17/23] Unsettling Accounts

17. Journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired by the Fox News television station they work for after refusing to change their investigative report on Posilac, a Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) made by Monsanto. Their research documents potential health and safety problems of drinking milk treated with the synthetic hormone, but threatened with legal action from Monsanto, Fox wants the negative effects played down. The court eventually throws out Akre’s whistle blower lawsuit after deciding that the media is allowed to lie.

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25 thoughts on “THE CORPORATION [17/23] Unsettling Accounts”

NavinJohnson90

OsoLoco40

VISUALGUYSER

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Rupert is going … Rupert is going down like a fat blimp

mathproof

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

I don’t drink it … I don’t drink it that much. Lately, I have been trying rice milk. In general, I get my calcium from vitamins; although, I still uses full fat cream for my coffee. I’m doomed!
I appreciate the info about hexane. I’m just curious, would that cause flatulence?

TracyM1974

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Soy milk is not a … Soy milk is not a good idea. Soybeans are soaked in hexane during processing.

Soy: Dirty Little Secrets
watch?v=N0UVjo_V00U

GoldeneyePwner

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Other news … Other news organizations probably have a slant one way or the other. I’m pretty sure that’s a fact. But in this case, that is NOT the point. The point is that Monsanto used products that they KNEW had negative health implications and Fox News covered it up. Nothing else needs to be said.

winner502

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

what does that say … what does that say about 9 11
and all the wars and wallstreet bailouts
falseifying the news is legal
all americans should be very scared

nocturnezero

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Of course, of … Of course, of course, but Fox is by far the worst.

mathproof

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

MrMelick thank you … MrMelick thank you so much. I heard Christopher Hitchens use the phrase in his ‘Unacknowledged Legislation’ Youtube lecture and I liked it. I tried to find the correct spelling on the internet, but I don’t speak French.
Again, I appreciate it.

Ridgid

Peanutof85

I’m surprized Fox … I’m surprized Fox News didnt turn their hired goons on these guys. Strange how their not fighting back??? Guess they just want the reporters to go away, just like their story.

82Pumpkinfarms

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Once again Fox and … Once again Fox and Fox News proves itself to be unconscionable, surprize, surprize, surprize.

happiness6589746

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

lol lol

junkyassmonkey

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

americans enjoy … americans enjoy their cancer causing milk

junkyassmonkey

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

only indians are … only indians are moral…

eiwaz

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

I see you’re fluent … I see you’re fluent in newspeak.

steel1968

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Bias and dishonesty … Bias and dishonesty are just as synonymous as rapist and jay walker are.

steel1968

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Facists? Yeah you … Facists? Yeah you better look up that term. Lol.

And you’re also already going in to the whole Left/Right thing. Stay with me here, we are both Americans we’re on the same team. Man ppl on the right instantly have to start dividing everybody, then they wonder why so many, like myself have left the Repub side to become Independents.

And making up stories, exagerrating mole hills into mountains, and then beating one’s chest bcuz nobody else reported on it is not reporting news.

eiwaz

(February 6, 2010 - 12:59 pm)

Bias and dishonesty … Bias and dishonesty are synonymous. There is very little, if any truth in the MSM. The truths they do recount represent only a part of the truth. The biggest lies are often told in silence. That is the left wing fascists’ specialty.